Another week, more terrorism from the Labour government rather than cooperation and problem solving. "We know best, beat them until they submit" - seems to be the only way they know.
Another week, more terrorism from the Labour government rather than cooperation and problem solving. "We know best, beat them until they submit" - seems to be the only way they know.
drip, drip, drip, escalation of the USA's second civil war (arguably continuation of the first) until the damn bursts.
I don't say that to be complacent. We do need to act and be positive to avoid Reform. And increasingly maybe to avoid LabourReform as they are drifting to look.
There's one hopefully saving grace in the UK. With years until the next election and some councils now run by Reform two things can happen; 1/ the USA crumbles into severe shitsville and current Reform followers notice, 2/ Reform fuck everything in the places they run.
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.š§µ
Don't forget they can delegate to an AI to discuss the book afterwards with another AI. Summarise the discussion and just read that summary instead.
That wouldn't be too different to turning up, looking long enough to point your phone for a photo or film, then moving on to the next "experience".
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
Well seems sensible, then people will buy his no doubt soon to be on sale MAGA branded red flags with a golden image of the Criminal in Chief's profile on.
Exactly what I came to remind people. XOs are not law.
Then block if they appear delusional and no longer attached to reality.
Is it me or are there increasing numbers of lie supporting right wing accounts posting troll like comments. Usually accounts that have no hint of a bio and who's posts are usualy short, contrary and frequently uninteligable? I always go scan down their posts (if they made any) and replies.
Turned out the Sadam Hussein era Iraqi constitution was the one that seemed fairest. In the end it comes down to the people and the other institutions of government.
Search suggests San Marino has the oldest written consitition. But setting that aside it doesn't really matter. When I studied constitutional law we were handed a number of written constitions to read. The class was unanimous which seemed the best and fairest after reading them (about 10).
Sadly the controlling right of the USA supreme court wants democracy to die.
But "innapropriate" to her probably doesn't include statutory rape of children.
My first reaction was it's an acknowledgement that civil war is escalting.
This seems so absurd I can only register it as ridiculous parody. (true or not)
Along with undermining (devastating) global trust and respect for the USA. Ripping up the USA's productive and technological (science) advantages. And so much more (USA) self harm.
Every time the Republicans spout lies again (in other words when ever they speak these days) I'm left dumbfounded that they can get away with it. Guess Dem's are similarly stunned. Even though by now they should have a strategy to deal with it. Though I don't know what that strategy is? Anyone?
Read a great piece recently on people spouting statistics. Basically rule 1/ If they are offering percentages they're almost certainly liars. 2/ If they offer no context and source you know "100%"(š) they are liars. Wish I had the link.
They are attempting to end lawful society in the USA and now bringing the same "our word is to be obeyed" in place of law to the world stage.
I tend to avoid putting things this way, but to me, the continual and automatic lies about anything and everything anytime they (Republicans) speak just qualifies him as "evil liar". Telling distorted lies about everything. Hiding, erasing, rewriting the facts is just deliberate evil.
Well, every bad thing at least.
The more a group reduces who can see in the more you have to suspect them of being wrongdoers, criminal and scoundrels.
It's been terribly wrong for a long time. Now the gaps have widened so much and the state of affairs so outrageous it just can't be ignored any more. Except by too many politicians, the rich and the (mainly right leaning) media.
In the main photo I have seen Trump does look like he's almost going to swoon as he takes his masters hand.
It's an economic system that values wealth. Full stop. Nothing else matters.
The (creepingly former) USA is becoming an occupied state.
Even if we're that fortunate, the clean up will take a long time. All the things he/they have butchered can't just be signed back into being.
And that such a loaded bunch of biased people would subvert any law as best they could or ignore it presenting their interpretation. Yet another big issue that needs resolving for the USA to have a future as a democracy. Really feels like the end of this iteration of the Republic.
I know properly things decided by the SC are really because legislation is poorly worded, unclear or none existent. But the way they are going about rewriting settled cases and this this case looking to subvert actual legislation. It strikes me that they are way past their authority.
Wonder if they would say yes if asked to let their attractive teenage daughter spend a weekend with him.
Wilful along with accidental and enforced ignorance are two of our biggest problems. Along with being one of the tools of the so called elite in retaining power, influence and control - they hate education beyond the basic necessities. Really hate informed curiosity and questions.
We need to redefine what is meant by economy with adapting a hopefully sustainable approach. www.nhbs.com/on-natural-c...
I've moved to using what I think is more correct than greed - they have extreme avarice. They care only for money and not progress or well being (of other people or the natural world in general).
Depends on the economics you are operating in www.nhbs.com/on-natural-c...
The rich don't benefit enough for their liking by everyone doing well. Too many tend to be toward the Trump think of "only if you lose do they win". Everyone winning doesn't cut it for their avarice.
Wish the UK Labour government understood this too. Rather than siding with demonstrably wrong antiquated erroneous economics.
The entire electorate aren't as stupid as sometimes casually branded. Given a majority of the population according to conversations, studies and polling don't want the Trump vision (that most didn't vote for) most people see the extreme bias in the loaded so called supreme court.
Wouldn't be surprised if all he wants is a census that doesn't include large numbers of migrants allowing him to then claim from census data that he's solved the migrant problem and they have got rid of 30 million of them. Basically the kind of statistical lie he wanted for employment figures.
It's just a continuation of seeding doubt. The claim they will make is "oh all those ones are wrong", "it was amended", and endless lies to fool their base.
It's amazing to me that they (Republican politicians) now seem openly happy to talk about rigging elections through varied means.
Noticing a pattern here.
"they lost" yet here they appear to be again. It's looking more like it was just period of setback for certain ideas and reasoning that most of us disagree with. But ideas like some microbes seem able to lie dormant until conditions suit them. And we've still not adequately inoculated against.
An important new analysis: weāre now seeing a strategy unfold to undermine the 2026 election. Itās unprecedented and often illegal. And it will be a big and growing story for the next year and a half. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
And after the abominations and atrocities those who perpetrated them found firing squads and the hangman waiting for them. We should potentially remember this as the end of their direction of travel once held accountable.
And we the people who too often accept and repeat the numbers, lazily, without question or inquiry.
2.1 The electorate takes too little interest and kick up no fuss.
Trump's expression looks so guilt in that final frame. He knows it's yet another lie and he's knee deep in shit.
Secret details supposedly on our behalf are one of the most disgusting acts of treachery governments continue to perform. Made even worse by big business often being in the room for creating the terms.
"Be warned" Be terrified.
I'd like to see any companies that don't pay all staff a living wage taken into administration. Clearly they are failed companies.
And ditching monitoring agencies open the door to returning environmental harm, industrial pollution, shoddy work and products, rip off financial services, basically every way a citizen, employee or consumer can be shat on, poisoned and screwed over.
I wouldn't be surprised to find an even more pathetic reason, the Labour government don't want to get labelled "socialists", "communist" or "Marxist", by Murdoch's media; however absurdly inaccurate. But clearly Labour are putting business before people and nation far too often.
Given the unbelievable, absurd, arrest of a Jon Farley for holding up a page of Private Eye it's a shock Starmer's police state haven't visited Mr Davey - I wish I was actually joking.
The more I've thought about it the more I've come to conclude it's the fault of the people who didn't bother getting out to vote that did vote for Biden. Subsequently I end up sure that voting for a black woman was their problem. First point seems self evident, second clearly mainly opinion.
Personally I'd rather see the old use applied properly to government and "terrorist" dropped from criminal use. Just call them what they are, violent attackers, murderers and mass murderers.
To be fair to the current Labour government, though I'm shocked to say they may be the worst for this since Thatcher it has been practised to some degree by every government of my life time. By original meaning, terrorism; now as normal state policy.
Then today I see the article on Lisa Nandy bullying the BBC over Gaza and think about the outrageous arresting of people for peaceful protest (notably on Gaza and the environment). www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... arresting people for peaceful protest certainly appears to me as intimidation.
Just finished "The Fate of Abraham - Peter Oborne" (good but I have some strong criticism). It notes the OED originally defined terrorism as "government by intimidation as directed and carried out by the party in power"; describing the manner of rule by Maximilien Robespierre known as Terrorism.
And no doubt to solve the rise in shoplifting he'll move rapidly to reshape out economics to be a fair system where everyone earns a living wage. AS IF!
Every time they (any Republican politician) speak it seems to be another lie.
Trigger memories of reading the 1937 book "It can't happen here - Sinclair Lewis"
As for Farage being āastonished thereās been so little debate in Westminster ... on this issueā perhaps he'd see more debates on all things if he tried attending Parliament.
To claim the ONS trusted figures are so unreliable faker Farage must surely have a reliable source to share? Or how would he be able to know? Simple fact, he has nothing or he'd show his working rather than vaguely spread the fresh manure that he does have. Farage, it appears, lies again.
She barely keep a straight face spouting that pile of lies.
Better than new runways at any airports.
I'm on the side of their mutual annihilation.
When starting from a position of well funded and largely independent public media I'd have to suspect it starts when the darkness beings capture of control (Conservative stooges in the UK). And from the outside the misinformation media of the super selfish (rich) have damaged the public trust.
tragic.
Comedy gold from the VP. Yes offensive sexual antics from an almost certain rapist certainly sounds like the Criminal in Chief.
Eventually the other parties have to wake up to the total pointlessness of negotiating agreements with the liars. Just route around the corrupt heart.
I feel dirty for clicking the love this button because the quote was from Elon Musk. But there we go.
And by "establishment" I mean the shadowy bastards that want to keep the majority servile and a cheap source of labour for where they can't replace us with robots, machines and AI. They also hate real competition as it forces fair pricing.
I'd just returned to add something related to that. The other great thing about renewable, particularly solar panels on houses with local battery storage is the removal of large capital control. It's affordable by a much wider base of people. Taking away one means of control from the establishment
It's also the job of those we elect to be better informed than us on matters. Thus making decisions that may not be the priority of the person in the street. Their decisions should of course be backed by full (fuller than seems usual) explanation to stand the scrutiny and questions we give it.
Finally a (very) minor hint of relief from the MAGA hat burning that Trump's lies and bullshit do actually have a limit for some of the (formerly - I hope) devoted.
Wish they'd call it by what it is rather than the cute Trump propaganda for it. It's Trump's Florida internment camp. Alcatraz was a prison for actual convicted persons.
Where "scam" can read "conspiracy". It astonishes me how they expect a future to function when they want to build it on lies and false information. You have to trust (backed by reliable scrutiny), have tyranny or operate in total dysfunction. Guess they want tyranny.
Quite. Reality of much research suggests there's much more money to be made in the new energy sector (new equals sustainable environmentally friendly) than burning stuff. But the money behind delusional deniers is entrenched in the old filthy sort and they refuse to divest until they fully cash in.
Money blindness. Nothing matters to them except money as a rationale. Anyone who looks with reason at the numbers knows the shift to renewable energy not only makes sense to surviving as a species but economics too.
You could take this Tice quote from the article as meaning he thinks we've decided to embrace suicidal levels of planetary heating rather than continue to move toward a sustainable energy source that could mean we never have to burn organic matter again.
They appear to have no values but hate and destruction.
Reform, policy as pure mindless emulation as zombie parrots of the dangerous, deluded, radical Republicans. They have no evidence, national interest or discernible reasoning other than doing their distant masters bidding for this attack on what anyone with a brain cell sees as sense.
4. Make it too difficult or costly for normal people to take them to court when their unregulated actions cause harm.
Who wants to bet on the Criminal in Chief's ability to explain the offside rule? Just so he can prove he knows what game he watched when it's not the one he cheats at.
Don't worry the SCOTUS will surely rule it constitutional soon enough by a 6:3 vote. Continual chipping away of law and order is unlikely to end well.
Profit. Private companies run the detainment and get huge sums from government. Then they'll probably end up forcing them to be free labour to rent out to bidders for greater profits.
Presumably this is a wealth extraction plan so the state keeps paying lucratively to private companies. Who will no doubt be able to force the prisoners into labour.
The majority that do the work but are being displaced in the economics of enshitification by AI to short cut tasks so they're often done less well, but fast enabling bigger profit. Let's think of a world built for life to thrive, us and other. They completely lack Imagination (Starmer, Reeves).
Throw on top of that the clear embedding into the failed Reagonomics economics of Thatcher and greed that's done so much damage over 50 years. The insult of deregulation having "trickle down" to the rest of us in benefit. Well fuck trickle down. Fuck listening to the greedy.
I've been patient. But the Chancellor needs replacing. This just isn't suitable language; it's offensive given the real boot and knees on real people's necks. It's also just no need of violent dialogue in the financial economics arena.
Presumably they are drawing up plans to build giant coal powered fans to blow the smoke across borders.
With crop harvests world wide coming in much lower than last year (which in themselves were not great).
Just reminds me of Klaatu explaining that the Earth is not "ours" (humans); that humans are just one species upon it. On a different point, can you recommend any good history books covering the indigenous history and people? (or on line, etc, resource) I'd like to know more.
And if it works try some off peak buses with dedicated space for several bikes near the front.
I was thinking at the weekend about buses. I'd like to see a trial of off peak buses being allowed to take bicycles that have to be in the isle at the back and keep people seated in the front seats.
Good cycle paths are like Field of Dreams, build them and the bicycles (sadly too many electric mopeds too) will come. Much cheaper to build than new roads.
It may be contended we are still in the Thatcher era. The direction set by the 80s politically and economically are still the path we are on. And we sadly appear to be accelerating toward the catastophe it sets up.